. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. POMEGRANATE from the pulpy seeds, with the addition of water and sugar. This is much used at the South, and is espe- cially grateful in fevers. The plant is injured by a cold of from 8 to 15° above zero, hence it is not hardy above the 34fh degree of latitude north. For higher latitudes it should be cultivated
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. POMEGRANATE from the pulpy seeds, with the addition of water and sugar. This is much used at the South, and is espe- cially grateful in fevers. The plant is injured by a cold of from 8 to 15° above zero, hence it is not hardy above the 34fh degree of latitude north. For higher latitudes it should be cultivated in tubs, and given a conserva- tory during winter. For some sections of the South it is used for hedges. The fruit begins to ripen about September and can be kept for several weeks. The Pomegranate is multiplied by hardwood cuttings planted in open ground during February, or by layers POMELO 1397. 1887. Pomegranate ana also oy softwooo cuttings Quring summer. As the plant forms many shoots, these are often used, as they usually are provided with rootlets. The Pomegranate is supposed to have been intro- duced into southern Europe by the Carthaginians, whose Latin name of "Punicus" was thus given and derived. We also find a reference in the sacred scrip- tures. Theophrastus described it 300 years before the Christian era, and Pliny considered it one of the most valuable fruits, both as to its beauty and medicinal properties. The bark of the root is a well-known as- tringent employed in therapeutics, in dysentery and diarrhir-a; the rind of the fruit when boiled has for many generations past been the remedy for tenia, and a .ift-black, smooth writing ink is also made of it. The Pomeirranate is a native of some parts of Asia, and by some botanical authors is said to be also found in northern Africa and China. Although of such ancient origin and cultivation, there are but few varieties of the fniit-benring section disseminated in this country and , )..if. accordin
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